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'giving people a diagnostic label is unhelpful.. it convinces people they have a biological defect, it leads to ineffective and often harmful medical treatment, and most of the time, it misses the actual problems'. The Conversation theconversation.com/are-mental-hea…

Peter Kearns brings ILMI’s Values & the Social Model of Disability front and centre in this historic moment at the UN! 💥No punches pulled as he highlights real political participation & ILMI’s 2022 Political Participation Doc 👉 tinyurl.com/22s2ws82 #ILMI #UNCRPD #DPOpower

“We need more funding, more adapted taxis, more local link services, to improve accessibility for people with disabilities” ~Joan Carthy speaking at our National Advocacy Conference today. #RehabNAC25 #AdvocacyInAction Joan Carthy

Despite news statements to the ontrary, the interrogation of government by this youngest of our deputies can be civilised in question, response and analysis.

Enable Ireland Service Owners share their eye-opening perspectives on concerns in the Disability sector with Tara Byrne from Live 95. Well said by Ricky, Enda, Louise, Jessica and Michael from our Limerick Services. shows.acast.com/live-95-limeri…

A well put together show of these campions of opening up minds and ways to inclusion in everything LIVING.

A brave difference told in the same, same old story of perceptions of the limitations in disability rather than in the perceptions of closed minds to consider what meaningful inclusion means.

In #Berlin ILMI Community worker: Heylove is hard at work "Excited to be here at #GDS2025 representing ILMI! Disabled people’s voices must be central in shaping policies that affect our lives. Looking forward to connecting with DPOs worldwide #CommitToChange #OverABillionReasons

UN experts released the 'Concluding Observations' about how the EU performs in #DisabilityRights: a "comprehensive review" of laws is needed! We welcome these conclusions. read our reaction: edf-feph.org/results-are-in…

Autism is not a limitation; it's a unique way of seeing and experiencing the world.Let’s remember that every person deserves acceptance, support, and love. Together, we can create spaces where neurodiversity is celebrated, where individuals can thrive, where every voice is heard.

A new insight into when the agreement with the Independent group to comprise the make up of government may have beendecided in the negotiations to form this government.

The interview with the author is pressing and draws attention in deeper meanings to what is befalling our teenage going children as an epidemic of withdrawal from learning as we know it. So many articles in similar vein, must be noticed.

Inclusion Ireland who were not paid 13 million, produced an easy to read guide in two days that the Farrelly Commission could not produce after 8 years. #Grace

Only the best. I’m sure you’ll do us proud as well as the huge champion in your dad who embraces us all with a unique and loving form of activism.

Sarah Caden: It’s inclusion for some, not all, as cohort of students with special educational needs are left behind This is the other side of the inclusion/special rush of the more able that is leaving so, so many children behind as described here. independent.ie/opinion/sarah-…

Are we over-pathologising young people's mental health? You'd be in denial if you think we aren't: doi.org/10.1111/camh.7…

It is a misdirection of attention to continue in a pillorying of the HSE in respect of assessments of needs not carried out. Families rightly are concerned that their child's educational needs are grounded in expert understandings but to seek disability labels is so wrong.

An interesting study from Australia inwhich the exposure of our yound people to this drug in the study and others prescribed for miss-labelled growing anxieties of the brain, far from offering remedies, could be exposing our later young adults to dependencies with consequences.

The late diagnosis of autistic woman too often ignores their upbringing in abusive families or being exposed to external circumstances which are not easily tolerated by growing minds too early asked to tolerate what we later, in adulthood too quickly call "Autism.?

I've grown up where resistance of "the Medical Model: of disability has been to the fore of our advocacy - where Autistic People espouse the Medical Model" of autism and give it multiple disability labels.